Author Bio

Monica White

VP of Product Marketing

Monica is passionate about bourbon and product marketing—in that order. She can sometimes finish telling a joke without laughing. Sometimes.

WHAT SHE REALLY DOES: Leads a team of creative product marketers who take the nerdy technical stuff and make it appealing to the masses. She loves people, which is very convenient because relationship building is a foundation of her job.

WHY READ HER BLOG: Monica has more than two decades of experience in cybersecurity and tells it like it is—with a dash of humour (she’s Canadian so that’s the correct spelling of humour).

ODD FACT: Quotes regularly from the wisdom that is Talladega Nights. (“If you ain’t first, you’re last!” and other timeless gems.)

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Kenna.VM is Now Cisco Vulnerability Management

In 2021, Cisco acquired Kenna Security to advance Cisco’s commitment to radically simplify, democratize and automate security operations, and help customers improve their security posture. Since then, we’ve been hard at work integrating Kenna’s risk-based prioritization technology into the broader Cisco Security ecosystem, building upon one of the most comprehensive security portfolios in the industry….

The 5 Remediation Metrics Your Program is Missing

How can you tell if your vulnerability management strategy is effective? Many organizations assume that a low vulnerability risk score means their cybersecurity strategy is optimized, or at least sufficient. But a risk score doesn’t tell the whole story. A high-risk vuln could spike your score at any moment, but that upswing isn’t a reflection…

Zero Trust Security in the Face of Today’s Threat Landscape

What is zero trust? Zero trust is a security framework that requires all users to be authorized and continuously validated before being granted access to an organization’s network and its assets. Unlike traditional security models, a zero trust architecture removes implicit trust and does not allow in-network users free access to all data within the…

What Security Resilience Will Mean in the Year 2025

Cyberattacks are now considered the No. 1 business risk for C-suite executives and board members alike. According to new survey findings compiled by PwC, 40% of business leaders and a surprising 51% of board members feel that cyberattacks were deemed a serious risk. And the idea that cybersecurity is a shared priority trend is occurring…

Public Sector Security: Making the Case for Going Risk-Based

Even in the wake of catastrophic security breaches, mounting risks, and increasing unpredictability, public sector entities remain slow to evolve. Keeping pace with this elevated threat landscape means moving quickly and modernizing traditional IT environments, something the public sector isn’t too well known for. But as the risks rise in severity and sophistication, streamlining and…

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Without Risk-Based Prioritization, Security Resilience Will Be Elusive

One of the difficult truths about present-day cybersecurity is the perimeter as we’ve known it for the last few years has vanished. A tidal wave of connected devices and continued remote work demands have blurred the lines of our traditional environmental boundary, widened attack vectors, and expanded attack surfaces. Everything is connected—and everything is a…